Essence Quote by Roger Housden

“Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.”

— Nancy J. Napier & Carolyn Tricomi

If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of…

— Pema Chodron

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still…

— Roger Housden

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“If time stood still, each moment would be stopped; frozen. Each moment, individually, can be captured as though the world was a giant painting.…

— Alexis Hurley

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who…

— Anonymous

This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used…

— Quentin S. Crisp

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“When you discover yourself lying on the ground, limp and unresisting, head in the dirt, and helpless, the earth seems to shift forward as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

— Thomas Carlyle

Time can also be a place… Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of…

— Frank Herbert